The city that was (once) synonymous with heavy industry, known for its heavy breathing and polluted air, has now also received ‘heavy water’. Just when it seemed that air pollution would be resolved by the transition of the Bosanski Brod refinery to gas, here comes the problem with water.
The people of Brod experienced what Marie Antoinette would have once advised them – if they cannot breathe polluted air, they should drink – polluted water. Who knows how this would have been managed and how the affair with the polluted water would have echoed in the media if Mayor Mirko Duspara were in HDZ.
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Thus, Slavonski Brod’s ‘dry Easter’ became a battleground for political reckoning among everyone with the participation of state and city authorities (and their respective oppositions) and a ‘suspicious character’ – Crodux, with the assistance of Croatian Waters, the Public Health Institute, the State Attorney’s Office, and the police.
The state is to blame for allowing Crodux to inspect Plinacro’s product pipeline, or Crodux, which ‘lost’ 200 liters of gasoline, or the city is to blame for not installing filters in the water supply, or Croatian Waters, which sold that water supply to Brod, or perhaps Janaf’s oil pipeline, which also runs through Slavonski Brod… For almost a week, it has been unclear who contaminated the water supply with hydrocarbons and forced 100,000 people to drink water from tanks or buy bottled water for three weeks since Good Friday.
